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AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution
ESB-2007.0960 -- [Solaris]
Security Vulnerabilities in libtiff(3) May Allow Denial of
Service (DoS) or Privilege Elevation
4 September 2008
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AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product: libtiff
Publisher: Sun Microsystems
Operating System: Solaris 10 Operating System
Solaris 9 Operating System
Solaris 8 Operating System
Impact: Increased Privileges
Denial of Service
Access: Remote/Unauthenticated
CVE Names: CVE-2006-3465 CVE-2006-3464 CVE-2006-3463
CVE-2006-3462 CVE-2006-3461 CVE-2006-3460
CVE-2006-3459 CVE-2006-2193
Ref: ESB-2006.0542
ESB-2006.0399
Original Bulletin:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/printfriendly.do?assetkey=1-26-103160-1
Revision History: September 4 2008: Patches are now available for
Solaris 8 and 9
November 30 2007: Initial Release
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Solution Type: Sun Alert
Solution 201331 : Security Vulnerabilities in libtiff(3) May Allow
Denial of Service (DoS) or Privilege Elevation
Previously Published As: 103160
Bug ID: 6451119
Product
Solaris 8 Operating System
Solaris 9 Operating System
Solaris 10 Operating System
Date of Workaround Release: 28-NOV-2007
Date of Resolved Release: 02-Sep-2008
SA Document Body
Multiple security vulnerabilities exist in the Tag Image File format
library (libtiff(3)):
Impact
Multiple security vulnerabilities exist in the Tag Image File format
library (libtiff(3)) which may affect applications making use of this
library. Depending on the individual application, these
vulnerabilities may allow a local or remote unprivileged user to cause
a Denial of Service (DoS) to the application, or to execute arbitrary
code with the privileges of the application.
These issues are described in the following documents:
* CVE-2006-3459 at:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-3459
* CVE-2006-3460 at:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-3460
* CVE-2006-3461 at:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-3461
* CVE-2006-3462 at:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-3462
* CVE-2006-3463 at:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-3463
* CVE-2006-2193 at:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-2193
* CVE-2006-3464 at:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-3464
* CVE-2006-3465 at:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-3465
Sun acknowledges with thanks, Travis Ormandy from the Google Security
Team for bringing these issues to our attention.
Contributing Factors
These issues can occur in the following releases:
SPARC Platform
* Solaris 8 without patch 139093-01
* Solaris 9 without patch 125673-02
* Solaris 10 without patch 119900-04
x86 Platform
* Solaris 8 without patch 139094-01
* Solaris 9 without patch 125674-02
* Solaris 10 without patch 119901-04
Symptoms
If the described issues have been exploited to cause a Denial of
Service (DoS), the affected application will crash, potentially
leaving a core file depending on the system configuration.
There are no predictable symptoms that would indicate that these
issues have been exploited to execute arbitrary code.
Workaround
To work around the described issues, only load images from trusted
sources.
Resolution
This issue is addressed in the following release:
SPARC Platform
* Solaris 8 with patch 139093-01 or later
* Solaris 9 with patch 125673-02 or later
* Solaris 10 with patch 119900-04 or later
x86 Platform
* Solaris 8 with patch 139094-01 or later
* Solaris 9 with patch 125674-02 or later
* Solaris 10 with patch 119901-04 or later
For more information on Security Sun Alerts, see Technical
Instruction ID 213557.
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